Inside Llewyn Davis is the Coen’s forthcoming comedy-drama set against the folk scene in 1960s New York. While general audiences will have to wait until January 2014 when it hits cinemas, it screened on the weekend at Cannes Film Festival and received universal praise. Here’s a sample of the first reviews to salivate over… The ... Read on.
Not film news per se, but scandalous nonetheless – two incidents at the Cannes Film Festival are making more headlines than the movies. After midnight on Friday, French time, jewelry said to be valued at $US 1 million was s... Read on.
Being the small and great (but more importantly, small) country that we are, it is an unfortunate reality that we cannot get all the anticipated US theatrical releases into NZ cinemas. However, it would be a shame if we were ... Read on.
Trust Nordisk reports that Denmark are playing hosts to the debut of Lars von Trier’s potentially X-rated Nymphomaniac in December before its domestic theatrical release on the 25th. Yep, that’s Christmas day. Peter Aalbæk Jensen, CEO of Zentropa Entertainment: ”Seeing the film’s visual effects will be a significant part of the storytelling, we’re facing a huge ... Read on.
I feel like I’m being too unreasonably excited about Fast and Furious 6 coming out in a couple of weeks to be devoting an entire blog to “cool car movies”, but anyhow here I am, writing about some cool car movies in... Read on.
The Cannes Film Festival has gotten underway for its 67th glamour-filled year. Steven Spielberg heads the jury for the main competition while Kiwi Jane Campion heads the jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Film sections. Fi... Read on.
As their Autumn Events screenings near their conclusion, the NZ International Film Festival has announced the first six films from the 2013 festival proper that will travel the country from mid-July to early November. Four Kiwi films will have their world premieres at the NZIFF: Antarctica: A Year on Ice, The Deadly Ponies Gang, Gardening ... Read on.
Dwayne Johnson stars in this actioner as a father whose son has been wrongly convicted after being set up in a drug deal. In order to clear his boy’s name, he goes undercover for the DEA and enters the criminal underwor... Read on.
Will Smith is setting himself up to produce and star in Warner Bros.’ remake of Sam Peckinpah’s classic The Wild Bunch. According to The Wrap, Smith will be producing alongside Jerry Weintraub, both having worked... Read on.
Based on the true oceanic adventure taken by Thor Heyerdahl, this Golden Globe and Oscar nominated Norwegian film follows the legendary explorer’s 1947 journey across the Pacific in a balsa wood raft. Read more and find movie times. Despite a slightly fractured narrative, Norway’s most expensive cinematic undertaking ever is very much a film of ... Read on.
Based on the 2008 novel, in turn inspired by To Kill A Mockingbird, this British coming-of-age drama stars Tim Roth as the father of 11-year-old Skunk, a girl who witnesses her neighbour viciously beating one of her few frie... Read on.
Even after Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down, the President still has some ass-kicking to do, so who better to cast than Samuel L. Jackson? Big Game will see Jackson eject out of Air Force One when it’s shot down ... Read on.